Plate 6: Four Birds of Prey, Including a Sparrowhawk(?), c. 1575/1580

Inscription

Upper center in violet ink: Heu mundus totus quaedam est natina tyrannis, / Debilibus robusta nocent, et grandia parnis. / Apes fulminiger timidos Infestat olores: / ACCIPITER Laniat turdos, mollesq[ue] columbas.; center right in (gold?): .VI.; birds in image numbered .1., .2., .3. and .4., in red ink.
Facing page: Upper center in black ink: :3:4: / Praedo fuit Volucrum, famulus nunc aucupis: Idem / Decipit, et captus non sibi meret avis.; lower center in black ink: Nam mora dat Vires : teneras mora supracoquit unas: / Et validas segetes, quae fuit herba facit.

Provenance

Emperor Rudolph of Austria; Lessing J. Rosenwald, Alverthorpe, PA; gift to NGA, 1987.

Exhibition History

1982

Drawings from the Holy Roman Empire, = 1540 - 1680, The Art Museum, Princeton University, National Gallery of Art, Museum of Art, Carnegie Insitute, Pittsburgh (exh. cat. by Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, no. 56.

1982

Drawings from the Holy Roman Empire, 1540 - 1680, The Art Museum, Princeton University, National Gallery of Art, Museum of Art, Carnegie Insitute, Pittsburgh (exh. cat. by Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, no. 56.

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